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Grants Strategy

What Are You Really Asking? A Checklist for Grantmakers

As a grantmaker, questions are your tools. They help you gather information, assess needs, measure outcomes, and build relationships with [...]

March 19, 2024| 4 min Read

Grants Strategy

How to Get Leadership Buy-in for Streamlining Your Grantee Application

February 8, 2024| 5 min Read

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Grantmakers’ Questions as a Way Toward Change

December 27, 2023| 5 min Read

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Investigating and Improving the Questions You Ask Grantees

January 22, 2024| 5 min Read

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How to Streamline Your Grant Management Process with Technology

December 14, 2023| 4 min Read

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    Four Lessons From Candid About Balancing Grantee Data Protection and Transparency

    Candid’s mission is to get grantmakers and nonprofits the information you need to do good. But we recognize that data [...]

    June 13, 2022 | 6 min Read

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    Best Practices for Due Diligence in Grantmaking

    Why is due diligence important in grantmaking organizations? The process of satisfying legal requirements impacts many areas within an organization— [...]

    June 3, 2022 |26 min Listen

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    Due Diligence Best Practices for Grantmakers

    Grantmaking is the heart of the private foundation industry and is often the largest expenditure for a foundation. With grant-giving [...]

    April 19, 2022 | 4 min Read

     

     

     

     
     

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    Increasing Organizational Buy-in When Building a Culture of Strong Internal Controls

    Here are 7 practices to help your nonprofit build a string internal control system that will increase buy-in today and stand the test of time for the future.

    April 18, 2022 | 4 min Read

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    Creating and Sustaining a Culture of Wellbeing for Grantmakers

    Join Meico Marquette Whitlock, founder and CEO of Mindful Techie, for an excerpt from an interactive training that will inspire [...]

    April 14, 2022 |15 min Listen
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    How Nonprofits Can Build Trust with Strong Internal Controls

    Internal controls will minimize the risk of a nonprofit violating policies, regulations, and laws.

    April 14, 2022 | 5 min Read

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    Technology’s Role in Advancing Philanthropy’s Mission

    Chantal Forster, executive director of the Technology Association of Grantmakers (TAG), discusses the top 3 areas where grantmakers can make [...]

    April 4, 2022 |23 min Listen

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    5 Ways Grantmakers Create Work- and Tech-Life Balance

    You’re on a mission to make a difference in your community through grantmaking. But you’re two years into a pandemic [...]

    February 16, 2022 | 4 min Read

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    Data Health and Integration for Foundations Part 2: Business Imperatives

    I recently received my copy of Giving USA 2021.  This year’s publication highlighted how different 2020 was and, in fact, [...]

    October 20, 2021 | 8 min Read
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    Grants Strategy

    A New Era for Foundation Collaboration

    In the past, many foundations viewed collaboration as a speed bump. Collaborations, after all, take time. When two or more [...]

    October 12, 2021 | 4 min Read
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    Why Foundations and Grantmaking Professionals Can’t Miss bbcon 2021 Virtual

    As Blackbaud’s second virtual bbcon event approaches, we’re very excited about the fantastic session topics and speakers we’ve lined up [...]

    September 15, 2021 | 4 min Read

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    Fix the Form

    Data that is collected without a clear purpose becomes meaningless numbers on a page. However, data collection with a goal [...]

    June 28, 2021 | 2 min Read
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    Data Health and Integration Fundamentals for Foundations

    In a recent letter to the editor published in The Chronicle of Philanthropy, two former foundation officials decried the ‘staggering’ [...]

    May 17, 2021 | 5 min Read
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    Grants Strategy

    Tips for Adopting a Trust-Based Philanthropy Approach

    If you work in philanthropy, odds are that you have heard some buzz about trust-based philanthropy. While the approach isn’t [...]

    April 21, 2021 | 3 min Read
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